Massians

Although usually
translated as, "dancing," massia is the deadly style of fighting
employed by all elves. The massians have formed a powerful society operating
within the Alyres that everyone that wishes to advance outside of the academy
of wizardry joins. The massians owe much of their success as a society to their
relatively loose rules, allowing nearly anyone to become low-ranking members
and conferring honorary memberships to famous high elves. No general of the
Alyrean armies nor member of the Lysia Wardeis has ever been appointed from
outside of the massians.